Hi everybody. I look at it *exactly* like organ donation, which is allowed and
blessed in all faiths. Since these extra unused embryos are going to be
discarded anyway (in a way kinda similar to a dead adult body being put into
the grave, gone forever), why not allow them to "donate" cells that will help
so many people before they are thrown away? Adults have the chance to donate
before their dead body is gone forever, I think giving the embryos the same
chance/option is a true blessing. How many people they can help!!
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From: Jim Lubin
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Subject: Re: [TMIC] Stem cells
I feel the same way as Barbara does and have tried to explain it many times.
It's not so much our religious beliefs as regarding an embryo, from the time of
fertilization, a human life entitled to a right to live just as any other human.
Those who don't consider an embryo a human life have no problem destroying
embryos for research. I think the law currently recognizes embryos as property
of the sperm and egg donors that created it and not a life.
As Gunny pointed out usable stem cells have been found in embryonic fluid.
That is a tremendous scientific breakthrough which has been down played by the
media. The media wants to focus on controversy to fit a political agenda. The
media constantly wrongly says that some people are against all forms of stem
cell research, when no one is. Some people, such as myself, are against only
stem cell research which involve harming a viable human embryo.
After listening to Dr Kerr a couple times I have changed my opinion a little.
Doug said he wants to use the IVF embryos that are malformed that would not
result in a viable pregnancy. That seems fine to me. Those embryos could be
declared dead (such as would be the case before organ donation) and then be
used. I still can't get myself to go along with using otherwise still viable
embryos just because they are left over and not going to be used in IVF.
Jim
At 08:12 AM 1/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/12/2007 1:29:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL
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In my not so humble opinion re this stem cell controversy, the only
problem comes from those whose religious beliefs prevent them from looking at
medical advances right in the eye and taking advantage of them.
Bobberino in redneck Elvisland
(Sigh). No, that's not it at all. As many have explained many times in as
kind and as gracious a way as possible, it's a matter of regarding embryonic
life as real and with as much of a right to live as we have.
But -- the point of these posts was to celebrate that there is a way to
obtain stem cells without using embryos, not to bring up all those old
arguments again.
Barbara H.
http://barbarah.wordpress.com/
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